4.4 Screensaver frozen but able to SSH in to reboot...

momaw27

Hey all!

System:
RPi3 (non +)
Freshly installed 4.4
EazyHax 113 scripts installed

Background Music
External HDD Enabled
Bluetooth Sixaxis installed
Sixaxis controller connected

OK, I've recently started my system over in order to utilize the newly released 4.4 Retropie. All went well until I let my screensaver (which is set to random videos) go for about 10minutes.

Around this time I can still hear my background music but I am unable to break out of the screensaver (in fact, it loops the same video it hangs on. The video it hangs on is different each time... AND I am able to break out of the screensaver before the hang.

I thought it may be my USB drive as I have some videos that the screensaver pulls from but after disconnecting it, it still loops a video about 10 minutes in.

I thought it may be related to heat, but I'm sitting at 50C...

I can still SSH into the system to reboot...

I did not have this issue before 4.4

Any thoughts?

Thanks guys!

Beau

mitu

@momaw27 Can you try setting the audio device in ES to the entry starting with ALSA instead of both (the default) and try again ?

pjft

In this case, what's likely happening is that ES is crashing, and that's why the video keeps looping (as the video process is independent from ES).

Could you find the ES logs after a crash in ~/.emulationstation/es_log.txtand see if there's anything that sounds like an error we can further dig into?

Alternatively, could you quit ES, launch ES from SSH shell with the --debug option (I think it's like that) and see what happens when it crashes, what error you get?

I would not be shocked if the background music could be causing some conflict here, but I can't speak from experience in that regard.

It may also be something with the controllers disconnecting, a device falling asleep (UDB drive, maybe?), something.

If you'd want to run another SSH session, install htop and run it in tree mode to see what's happening and what is the end state, that may help.

Let us know how it goes and send over logs over pastebin and screenshots as needed.

toitoinou

Hey @momaw27
Have you tried overclocking your GPU ?
The reason why I'm asking is because I experienced the same issue.... but after 5+ hours of screensaver.
I tried a bunch of stuff... Regenerating and removing most of my gamelists, building Retropie from master, updating just about everything on my Pi, trying various settings in ES....
And then I noticed a video glitch in the ES interface when a video preview started, then all the interface froze except for the preview.
I changed my GPU overclock from 550 to 525 Mhz.... and no more freeze.
I hope it helps
Toitoinou